Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-02-04
LETTERS FROM THE CAPITOL.
ST, PAUL, Jan. 26, 1887.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 20, 1851.
After sleeping over night on the argu-
ment in the contested election case from
Dakota county the Senators came in and
voted Aiken out and Truax in. The vote
stood % for Truax to 16 for Aiken. The
vote was nearly divided on party lines,
though Keller, (Dem) voted for Truax
and Scheffer (Rep) voted for Aiken. The
rejected Senator retired in good order and
Mi. Truax was sworn in and took h1s
seat. Having successfully concluded their
task as a bouncing committee the Senators
next faced the whisky question, the issue be.
ing on accepting or rejecting the report OF
the committee on temperance in favor OF
$ license nnd in 500 cities s c G3sE n o
10000. Senator Oswald got in
an amendment allowing license to run for
fraction of year and then moved that 1t
be referred back to the temperance commit
tee. This motion failed by tie vote as fol-
lows:
NAYs-Brown, Buchanan, Clark, Clough,
Comstock, Crandall, Daniels, Dodge, Ed
wards, Goodrich, Halvorson, Hixon, Hoard,
Johnson, T., Lende, Pope Thacker' Wall
mark. Is
Durant, Eaton, Gibson, Hayden, Keller,
Nachbar, Nelson, Oswald, Scheffer, Shields,
Smith, Ward, WEIGH, Whiteman, Wood. Is
Senators Child, Day Hall, Swenson, Bow
en-, Truax, Compton, Finseth, johnson, M,
| Ives and Sampson, were absent, the two
license men claim Day: Ives. Swenson and
Finseth without doubt and Hall: Sampson
and johnson NJ as probable. This will give
a clear majority for high license IN the
Senate if the diagnosis OF the views
of the three la last tbsv nam s1 nre sen
at the crucial moment. The bill now goes
to the committee of the whole. These two
events made the Senate hungry or thirsty,
or both and they went to dinner as soon as
dinner came the regular grind rs bills
being introduced and IL passed. Al
State interest that was introduced was q
bill appropriating $50 800 for additional
buildings and land for the imbecile institu
proddingthe Winona & St. Peter railroad
and offered memorial to Congress
asking to have about half a million acre:
restored to the public domain
which it is claimed now arr
g Es House held n9oceed by ths ra haG a"
to-day. The high license bill came bacl
from the committee with favorable repor
and was made the special order for Friday
afternoon without opposition. There ha'
been no test vote to show positively, thu
standing of the House, but the high licens'
q
were launched. There is a great deal of duplics
ton of bills between the two Houses. Ih'
session is so short that everyone is afraid t.
trust an important bill to its regular course
and so it is of daily occurrence to find bill
exactly alike introduced in each House tn
same day. Then whichever House gets i
through first sends it to the other and tn
bill in that House drops the one alread,,
having passed one branch being considered
Besides if one House kills bill
and the other House passes it, tn
friends of the defeated measure have on
more chance to get a. hearing and endeayo
to reverse the hostile action. YESTERDAY.
bills appropriating money for the imbecil
asylum at Faribault were offered in boil
houses and high license bill was reported
back from the committee in each house
Much me is wasted by this attemp
at double legislation, which woult
be saved if the session were long enough tt
chance measures in the regular routine, ant
not run the risk of having them killed b,
lack of time. The house spent all OF the at
ternoon in committee of the whole and mos
of the time was devoted to debating bill
compelling insurance companies to pay thci
losses. The bill was recommended to pass